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What's a full-stack TypeScript-based alternative that's good enough for most of us? I constantly bump into the complexity of NextJS myself, but so far I've powe

What's a full-stack TypeScript-based alternative that's good enough for most of us? I constantly bump into the complexity of NextJS myself, but so far I've powered through the pain.

satvikpendem 3y ago
Vite with trpc? I personally don't use the backend functionality of NextJS at all, I have my own backend (in Rust but I'd do the same in Node as well) that communicates via GraphQL to the frontend in NextJS, it's pretty nice.
- reducesuffering 3y ago
  What are you doing with trpc if your backend is in Rust? trpc is typescript to typescript
  - satvikpendem 3y ago
    I never said I was using trpc, I was simply answering the parent's question about NextJS alternatives. But even with Rust, you can use a similar project called rspc that creates TS types from Rust.
sergiotapia 3y ago
I searched far and wide a few months ago and found these two are the only real contenders: RedwoodJS Remix If I had to compare them, I would label Redwood as more of an "emberjs" type feel, very corpo, angular-js, "enterprise". Remix is more loose and new, fresh ideas that other frameworks have since attempted to copy. Pick your poison.
nberlette 3y ago
Have you considered Deno? First class TypeScript support, secure sandboxing, and JIT rendering for React/Preact style projects with Fresh (https://fresh.deno.dev https://fresh.deno.dev). Also, they recently introduced a Node compatibility feature that supports _most_ modules. You can import directly from NPM using the npm: specifier, or import (almost) all of the builtin Node APIs using the standard node: specifier. Since recent versions (1.30+) of Deno are bundled with whats essentially a Node clone, and since its all packaged as a ~32MB executable... I've found myself just using Deno for everything lately. So far its been able to handle all of the projects I used to run with Node. Check out their docs: https://deno.land/manual https://deno.land/manual

What's a full-stack TypeScript-based alternative that's good enough for most of us? I constantly bump into the complexity of NextJS myself, but so far I've powered through the pain.

satvikpendem 3y ago

Vite with trpc? I personally don't use the backend functionality of NextJS at all, I have my own backend (in Rust but I'd do the same in Node as well) that communicates via GraphQL to the frontend in NextJS, it's pretty nice.

reducesuffering 3y ago
What are you doing with trpc if your backend is in Rust? trpc is typescript to typescript
- satvikpendem 3y ago
  I never said I was using trpc, I was simply answering the parent's question about NextJS alternatives. But even with Rust, you can use a similar project called rspc that creates TS types from Rust.

sergiotapia 3y ago

I searched far and wide a few months ago and found these two are the only real contenders: RedwoodJS Remix If I had to compare them, I would label Redwood as more of an "emberjs" type feel, very corpo, angular-js, "enterprise". Remix is more loose and new, fresh ideas that other frameworks have since attempted to copy. Pick your poison.

nberlette 3y ago

Have you considered Deno? First class TypeScript support, secure sandboxing, and JIT rendering for React/Preact style projects with Fresh (https://fresh.deno.dev https://fresh.deno.dev). Also, they recently introduced a Node compatibility feature that supports _most_ modules. You can import directly from NPM using the npm: specifier, or import (almost) all of the builtin Node APIs using the standard node: specifier. Since recent versions (1.30+) of Deno are bundled with whats essentially a Node clone, and since its all packaged as a ~32MB executable... I've found myself just using Deno for everything lately. So far its been able to handle all of the projects I used to run with Node. Check out their docs: https://deno.land/manual https://deno.land/manual